Derivative work discovery system and method

摘要

A derivative work discovery service facilitates discovery of derivative works by consumers who request the service from a derivative work service server. The derivative work service server uses information about digital sources available on a computer system operated by the consumer to search a derivative works database. A derivative work discovery file is compiled and presented to the consumer in a descending order of a ratio of a number of digital sources possessed by the consumer that are equivalent to digital sources used to create a derivative work to a total number of digital sources used to create that derivative work.